Word: persons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Superintendent Peter P. Walsh of the Pittsburgh police, a corpulent, red-faced person who professed ignorance of any seamy side that Pittsburgh may have and was very much flustered by Senator Reed's sharp questions about lining up the police for Candidate Pepper...
...James M. Cox, Democratic nominee for President in 1920, shrewd publisher, jovial person...
...watcher" is a person hired to visit voting booths to insure his employer's receiving all the votes cast for him. In Pittsburgh it was asserted that one-third of the voters were "watchers," allegedly purchased at $10 each...
...would be had he been wiser. Yet human nature being what it is certifies the recurrence of these moments in the lives of most people. Neither the freshmen who threw eggs at a Harvard tradition or those who broke a Yale tradition are really worse than the average person. From their ranks few master crooks or mighty anarchists will arise. Young, and with the momentary desire to get the most individual fun out of life, these hedonists forgot that they were part of an organization whose name as well as their own they were sailing...
Others, as well, were concerned in the running of that race. How many others no one knew. Probably every fifth person in the British Empire had money up, or said he had. All day, in costers' wagons and lorries and trains they had poured into Epsom Downs; they stood in the rain, an immense rubber-coated army, silently disliking each other. "All umbrellas down," said a voice. Up and down the ranked lines, a mile and a half long, of that steaming host, black bubbles of silk obediently collapsed; bookmakers put away their last tickets; touts and tipsters...